LOVE FAME TRAGEDY

The course of true love, fame nor tragedy ever did run smooth. When Matthew “Murph” Murphy – singer and songwriter of alt-pop phenomenon The Wombats – took time away from the band in 2019 to piece together a collaborative solo project named Love Fame Tragedy alongside such alt-rock luminaries as Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago and Alt-J’s Gus Unger-Hamilton, Covid had other ideas. With most tracks released as a series of singles and EPs, a debut album Wherever I Go, I Want to Leave emerged in 2020 to critical and commercial success, hitting 30 million streams. But plans for star-studded, Gorillaz-style live extravaganzas in London and New York were scuppered.